by Splabman | Aug 23, 2020 | Uncategorized
Poetics as Cosmology (Intro to Spontaneous Composition) A six week online (Zoom) workshop for people who have had a little experience in spontaneous poetry composition and want more. Join SPLAB and POPO Co-Founder Paul E Nelson in a lively course designed to start...
by Splabman | Aug 20, 2020 | Uncategorized
Back in March before we had a sense of how COVID-19 the novel Coronavirus would change our lives forever, Rattle Magazine’s Tim Green invited me to sit down (via Skype) for an interview about my work, my projects and about POPO. It is the best interview anyone...
by Splabman | Aug 15, 2020 | Uncategorized
As a fan of the Black Mountain School of poetry, which was inspired by the revolutionary poetics of Charles Olson, the last rector of the famed outside educational institution in North Carolina in the mid-20th Century, I was delighted to see this come up in my inbox:...
by Splabman | Aug 8, 2020 | Uncategorized
A very astute review of a new book by a poet that MANY poets love to hate has been published. It’s a book by Kent Johnson called Because of Poetry, I Have a Really Big House. The reviewer is Norman Finkelstein and one passage of the review states: …At this...
by Splabman | Aug 4, 2020 | Uncategorized
My good friend Ian Boyden is a brilliant artist who has a new book of poems to be released next month by Wesleyan University Press. FYI: A Forest of Names: 108 Meditations by Ian Boyden Wesleyan University Press (buy now) 136 pp. 2 b&w photos. 5.5...
